Patna: A man was arrested on Wednesday who was trying to make purchases with a stolen ATM card. he police said the man had stolen the ATM card from a person in the Kankerbagh area and was trying to buy a mobile phone from a shop. Patna: Four women with 40kg of marijuana were arrested near Patna Junction on Wednesday. The arrests were made by the Fatuha police of the Patna City on the basis of a tip-off. Patna: District co-operative officer of Khagaria, Anjum Hasan Ansari, was arrested by vigilance bureau officials on Wed nesday on the charge of taking a bribe of Rs 16,000 from one Rishi Kant Singh for providing him a list of members for election of fishery society. Patna: A bench of Justice Sheema Ali Khan of the high court on Wednesday posted the hearing after six months on a petition by former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav challenging his conviction in CPM legislator Ajit Sarkar’s murder case. Patna: A bench of Justice Mridula Mishra on Wednesday directed the state human resources development department principal secretary to appear in person on September 7 in connection with a contempt matter for not paying salaries to around 1,000 teaching and non-teaching employees who were absorbed in fourth phase. Muzaffarpur: An FIR was lodged on Wednesday by one Sudhanshu Kumar at Mithanpura police station after his son Aditya Prakash, a Class VIII student was allegedly kidnapped. Patna: Anil Bhowmick, director, IIT Patna, is on a visit to the US from August 15 to 25 to hold meetings with high-level officials from premier academic institutes like University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, and University of California. Bhowmick’s visits to the US assumes importance as he is trying to attract talented research scholars from US universities to join IIT Patna as faculty.





